Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:16:06 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will NOT be gone Message-ID: <20050130141606.GA86132@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org>
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I
> plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming
> upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This
> will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing
> pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of
> FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script.
Out of all the arguments against this change the most persuasive for me
was the one of ISPs having to modify all their customers' scripts.
So - this change is out. Instead:
- use.perl is gone in 5.X and -CURRENT, but not in 4.X;
- its functions are delegated to pkg-install, namely:
- symlink creation, due to the seeming consensus of this thread; it
will be done better than it is done now; in particular, more
symlinks will be created (perldoc, percc etc), and dangling
symlinks will be removed on deinstall;
- spamming of /etc/make.conf, which we need for ports; this is also
going to be less intrusive than it is now;
- spamming of /etc/manpath.config
Thank you all for the discussion.
\Anton.
--
The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. --
Jarkko Hietaniemi
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